Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 4

The rat immediately seized the precious thing and ran off with it to its king, who was very glad, and went at once to the cat and released its son.

Who acts: rat, king · What happens: seize, run off, be, go, release · To what, where: precious thing, son

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rat, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rat	det
2	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	nsubj
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 seized	advmod
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 king	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 king	nmod:poss
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 glad	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 glad	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 glad	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 glad	advmod
20	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 king	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 went	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 cat	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cat	det
28	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 released	cc
30	released	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	conj
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 son	nmod:poss
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 released	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the rat	the precious thing	immediately property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	run off	past	the rat not said here		with thing; to thing's king result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result
3	is	past	thing's king		glad property	tree rules
4	go	past	the rat not said here		to the cat	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cat=Initial_Location
5	release	past	the rat not said here	thing's son		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer son=Source

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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